For
centuries, entheogens have been utilized by religious communities around
the world as sacraments to help deepen consciousness and open vistas of
experience in concert with spiritual centers of the psyche. Entheogens
can be used as healing agents in a person's desire to become whole, yogically
attuned, and divinely aware of oneself in relationship to the cosmos.
Within a conducive setting and accompanied by proper intentions, entheogens
are extremely powerful catalysts in personal transformation.

Through
psychedelics we are learning that God is not an idea, God is a lost
continent in the human mind. That continent has been rediscovered in
a time of great peril for ourselves and our world. Terence McKenna

This
image was inspired from a visionary state I achieved while experiencing
the powerful entheogen LSD. I was subjected to what Tibetan Buddhists
call the Wrathful Deities, of the Second Bardo, as described in 'The Psychedelic
Experience', a manual based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead By Timothy
Leary, Ph.D., Ralph Metzner, Ph.D., & Richard Alpert, Ph.D. The full size
of this image is 1188 x 840 mm at 254 dpi. The Tibetan Buddhist Lama Anagarika
Govinda writes,"The 'Wrathful Deities' are merely the dynamic aspect of
enlightenment, the process of becoming a Buddha, of attaining illumination.
The ecstatic figures, heroic and terrifying, express the act of breaking
through towards the unthinkable, the intellectually unattainable". The
Tibetans regard the nightmare visions of the second Bardo as primarily
intellectual products. They are the reactions of the mind to the process
of consciousness expansion. They represent the attempts of the intellect
to maintain its threatened boundaries and symbolize the struggle of breaking
through to ego-less understanding and awareness.

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